Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Quotes

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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